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Founder of the first Polish post office, who died in 1584. He came from an Italian noble family, and he came to Krakow from Piedmont at the instigation of his brother, secretary of Queen Bona. In 1558, King Zygmunt August commissioned him to organize a permanent connection between Krakow and

Lenin Vladimir was the leader of the Russian and international workers movement and the creator of the Soviet state. He was born in 1870 in Symbirsk, died in 1924 in Gorki near Moscow. In the years 1912-1914 he lived in Krakow, where until the outbreak of World War I he

Humbert Szczepan was an architect and builder. He was born in Paris in 1756. In 1775 he came to Warsaw, where he received a patent from King Stanisław August for the builder of the city of Kraków. His main architectural works are: restoration of the Bishop’s Palace at Franciszkańska street

From the location of the city in 1257 to 1396, the head of the city was the bailiff, and then the mayor until 1793. . The Great Seym in 1791 unanimously passed the law on the townspeople. It gave the townspeople the privilege of “neminem captivabimus” – immunity of personal inviolability

Księżarski Feliks was an architect born in Kraków in 1820. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in 1835-1837, then at the Technical University in Munich and Karlsruhe. He also graduated from the military artillery and engineering school in Metz, and later worked as a road

Krzemiński Władysław was an actor, director, teacher, writer and director of the theater. He was born in 1907 in Kraków. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Brno, then he studied at the Drama School in Krakow and at the State Conservatory of Music in Warsaw. He collaborated with

Lem Stanisław was an outstanding, award-winning writer born in 1921 in Lviv. There he began medical studies in 1940, which he continued at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. During the war he worked as a car mechanic. He is famous as one of the most outstanding representatives of Polish science

Meisels Beer was a rabbi and patriotic activist. He was born in 1798 in Szczekociny. He was engaged in banking. Together with his wife, he founded the banking company Meisels and Bornstein. He lived in Kazimierz, Krakow, where one of the streets is named after him today. He was very

Miłosz Czesław was a poet, essayist, novelist, translator and literary historian. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. He was born in 1911 in Szetejnie, Lithuania. For 5 years he studied law at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, then he was also one of the organizers of

You may hear about Rubinstein cosmetics – a brand well known around the world. Meet her founder! Helena was born in Krakow in 1872, as she tends to conceal some information about her origin (especially in her diary “My life for the beauty”) – let’s see what we know about